arrests

French couple detained in Iran

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France has confirmed that two of its nationals, a man and a woman, have been detained in Iran and has dismissed as 'baseless' claims by the Iranian authorities that the pair were planning to cause 'chaos, social disorder and instability'. 

Two men held over Paris jewellery store heist

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Two men were arrested on Wednesday in eastern France as suspects in the robbery on Tuesday evening of a Chaumet jewellery store when items estimated to be worth up to 3 million euros in total were taken at gunpoint by a man who escaped on an electric stand-up scooter.

France arrests ex-members of Italy extremist group Red Brigades

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The seven, and three other Italians still being sought, had been convicted of terrorism charges in Italy dating back to the 1970s and 1980s.

Four held over over abduction of girl in eastern France

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French police have arrested four men aged between 23 and 60 in connection with the kidnapping on Tuesday of an eight-year-old girl, which investigators believe was carried out on behalf of her mother who had lost custody of the child.

French rights groups denounce 'arbitrary arrests' at Paris protest

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Officers arrested 150 people at the march and rally, the third protest over consecutive weekends over the security legislation.

Hundreds arrested after French police crack criminals' chat network

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Police forces across Europe have carried out hundreds of arrests, seizing cash, drugs and weapons after listening in on an encrypted communications network used by criminal gangs which was cracked by French police in 2017.  

Five arrested in France over alleged plot to attack place of worship

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Five alleged members of a neo-Nazi cell in France, two of them minors, have been arrested on suspicion of planning to attack a place of worship, a source close to the investigation told French media.

Driver of runaway French armoured cash delivery van arrested

France — Link

The driver of an armoured cash-carrying van containing an estimated 3.2 million euros which disappeared as his colleagues delivered money to a Western Union office near Paris early on Monday has been arrested in Amiens, northern France.

China slams France's support for detained Canadians

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A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said France's call, along with other Western governments, for Beijing to release two Canadians arrested after Canada detained the chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei as 'strange' and 'very bad in the eyes of the Chinese people'.

Six arrested over 'attack plot' against Macron

France — Link

Five men and a woman which prosecutors said have links to far-right circles have been arrested in several locations across France on suspicion of preparing a 'violent' aatack against President Emmanuel Macron.

Six held over vegan militant attacks in Lille

France — Link

Six people have been detained in the north-east French city of Lille in connection with a series of recent attacks on nine commercial businesses there, including against a butchers shop and a McDonald's fast-food branch, when windows were smashed and fake blood was daubed on walls.

New video shows Macron aide and associate illegally 'policing' May Day crowds

France — Investigation

French President Emmanuel Macron’s security aide Alexandre Benalla, together with an employee of Macron’s ruling LREM party, Vincent Crase, were involved on May 1st in other incidents before they assaulted a man among May Day crowds at a square in the Latin Quarter of Paris. In a new video obtained by Mediapart, the two men, officially present alongside police as civilian “observers” of crowd-control operations that day, can be seen heavy-handedly joining in the arrest of a man at a public park. The new evidence of their violent and illegal behaviour that day further deepens the scandal of a suspected cover-up of their actions by the presidential office and senior police hierarchy.

Revealed: story behind arrests of far-right activists in France

France — Investigation

Ten men, including a former gendarme, have been arrested across France for their suspected role in a plot to attack Muslims. Mediapart can reveal that one of the suspects had been setting up his own laboratory to make explosives. Matthieu Suc, Marine Turchi and Jacques Massey report on the story behind the dramatic arrests and the murky world of the far-right in France.

Ten far-right suspects arrested in France over 'plot to attack Muslims'

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Arrests were made in operations across France but mainly on the island of Corsica, prosecution sources said.

Paris binmen arrested in attempt to dump rubbish at Macron party HQ

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Two Paris binmen who stole a truck from their service depot and attempted to empty the rubbish it was carrying outside the headquarter's of President Emmanuel Macron's political party were arrested in central Paris on Friday by gun-waving police.